whenever I delete the .htaccess from the server the pages run normally but when I re-add the .htaccess I get the internal server error. It's really weird because occasionally an enter your password window comes up even but when I enter the password the window reappears, as if the password was entered incorrectly, and when I reload the page I get the 500 server error. Thanks in advance for the much needed help!!!

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Is probably what's causing you the error. The AllowOverride directive tells apache what is allowed to be used in things like htaccess files. So obviously, it's not something you can set in your htaccess file. AllowOverride needs to be in the server or vhost config, and the AuthConfig part of it tells apache that you can have auth directives (like AuthType, AuthName, etc) in an htaccess file.

I added the line because I saw that as an answer somewhere, and without the line the code still doesn't work- do you know how to add the allowoverride to the server or to see if it's already there?
– user3015721Nov 21 '13 at 3:06